Speaking of Aged Celebrities, I am still having trouble dealing with seeing Ally Sheedy on CSI last night. Granted, they deliberately made her look tired and plain, but come on now. The Breakfast Club. St. Elmo's Fire. Hello? If she can't manage to remain eternally young and hot, what hope do the rest of us have?

I can already picture the scene from the inevitable film, THE PSHAWSKANK REDEMPTION:

Paris Hilton gains access to the penitentiary-wide intercom, barricades herself against the locked-out guards, and causes a gruesome prison riot when she plays "Stars Are Blind" over the prison's sound system.

How dumb is Paris Hilton? Sounds like she got a decent, lenient sentence for her DUI, and she blows it like an idiot by disobeying rules. I guess she must not think they apply to her? Can't she hire a driver and a decent lawyer? If she goes to jail she deserves it not only for her crime, but for being too dumb to follow instructions.

-Please anyone but Mandy Moore. She cute and nice, but as an actress is about as interesting a wet sponge with no suds (apologies to fans of SpongeBob Squarepants).

-David Hasselhoff is a jerk. Just because Alec Baldwin got press for his bitter divorce and custody battle, Hasselhoff said "hey, what about me." Hasselhoff's true addiction is to the tabloids. I hope he gets kicked out of AA.

And then that other St. Elmo's Fire girl shows up as the mother on Gray's Anatomy. Looking old. I mean, what gives? It seems like the Brat Pack men are aging much better that the chicks. Rob Lowe is still cute. Why? Fewer cigs?

that "other girl" from st. elmo's fire is mare winningham, and the reason she looks old is because she has about 8 children. seriously. she's a very good actress.

how about felicity huffman raving (mad) about LL? I loved that bill macy gave his own review to the off screen performance of 'la lohan'..."she was very late."

um...m. rodriguez is indeed hot but was she saying yes i'm gay but i'm not going to say it because i fear that i won't get any work or i'll get work but no one will see if because they don't like lesbians? if so, well why didn't she just say that? (and i think she's wrong about that but no one should out anyone else. that's just not right.)

blanket apology from methinks for thoughtless comment yesterday about young tin visjnic's name. i should have realized that goran would do better by his kid than to give him some trendy name in honor of a lightweight metal. i was not trying to offend the good folks in croatia or vietnam or wherever else 'tin' is used as a first name. i'm not a xenophobe and love the appropriate use of ethnic names.

No problem, you are not a rude poster, and as an Irish girl I get annoyed when all ethnicities aren't respected. Well, not respected per se, but are blanketed under being an American. Names had to come from somewhere right? I mean didn't everyone read the Greek myths or at the very least see Brad Pitt in Troy?

I was thinking the same thing as BF and dym. Providing that Paris makes it to 80, which I'm betting is a long shot, there is no way she's gonna let the bags show. I see a combination of Joan Rivers and old woman in "Something About Mary". Dr 90210 should be on speed dial.

Is Jade Pinkett Smith Katie Holmes' Scientology handler? When the rumors about the baby came out, Jade had something to say and was adamant that everyone was wrong and now this.

Michelle - love ya babe but you may want to talk to the Terminator 3 chick I think she was the first person to elude to a relationship between you and her.

Also agree that Cohen looks JUST LIKE Freddie M. Fred was not an innately attractive hombre, but, God!, was he cool. There was a time before all these Ashleees and Britannays and Jasons, when people were tapped for stage presence and pipes rather than pretty-boy/girl packaging. AND he could write a song.

Bogota, what I mean by appropriate is along these lines, your name is rasmussen and you name your kid julio because you think it's so cool. or maybe you name your kid suri because that's what tomkat named their kid and if it's good enough for them...
well, i think the name nels rasmussen might be even cooler.

Ah! Now I feel like we've plunged into Celebrity-like relativism. If appropriate means nothing more than you named your kid what you named your kid, then Suri's fine and so's Tin and Nine or whatever it was George wanted to name his kid on that episode of Seinfeld, and we should all leave them alone.

I mean, personally I agree with that to an extent. It won't be the kids' "fruity" and unique names that mess them up; it'll be their fruity and unique parents/family lives.

Like John Doe of X, even the most ordinary can be extraordinary, if you make it so. The contrary holds true too.

Of course (going against my own argument) I knew a woman with a truely amazing hippy-founded name that made her sound wonderful and exotic. She spent a certain amount of time trying to live up to it, when she was in fact a little ordinay.

So maybe the name won't help those kids. But I continue to think it'll be parenting more than anything else that matters.

i'm not going to promise i'll never question the "appropriateness" or wisdom of naming a child something unusual (i.e. apple, coco, dweezil, paris, ireland, margeaux, suri, etc.,) but i am aware that they are the parents and can name them whatever they want. i think celebrities often do things, including naming their children, because they want to be cool and different and are used to calling attention to themselves.

I'd love to have the Hilton family adopt a "surrogate Paris" if the real Paris Hilton is sentenced to jail time. I don't think Bai Ling would do any worse in Paris' shoes, she probably drinks less, she's slightly more coherent in interviews, and it would be very entertaining month for both Celebritology and Go Fug Yourself.

Seeing how many kids (even of non-celebrities) are named something thoroughly odd or a normal name is spelled totally weird, I wonder -- is the goal to make their kid stand out or be perceived as unique because of their NAME? I guess they don't know that a unique name does not make a unique person.